0LD SERIES, } CONTINUATION OF THE { NEW SERIES VOL. L BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB VOL. XLII

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EDITOR

WITMER STONE

VOLUME XLII

PUBLISHED BY

The American Ornithologists' Union

LANCASTER, PA. 1925

Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa.

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION PAST AND PRESENT.

PRESIDENTS.

*J. A. ALLEN, 1883-1890. *D. G. ELLIOT, 1890-1892. *ELLIOTT COUES, 1892-1895. *WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1895--1898. ROBERT RIDGWAY, 1898--1900. C. I•RT MERmAM, 1900--1903.

*CHAs. B. CORY, 1903-1905.

CHAS. F. BATCHELDER, 1905--1908. E. W. NELSON, 1908--1911. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 1911--1914. A. K. FISHER, 1914--1917.

*JOHN H. SAGE, 1917--1920. WITMER STONE, 1920--1923. JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1923--

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

*ELLIOTT COUES, 1883-1890.

1883-1891; ROBERT RIDGWAY, [1895--1898. *WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1890--1895.

f1891--1894; tI. W. HENSHAW, •1911--1918. C. Hart MERRIAM, 1894--1900.

*CHAs. B. CORY, 1898-1903.

CHAS. F. BATCHELDER, 1900-1905. E. W. NELSON, 1903-1908. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 1905-1911. A. K. FISHER, 1908--1914. WITMER STONE, 1914--1920. GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, 1918--1923 JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1920--1923 ALEXANDER WETMORE, 1923--

JOSEPH GRINNELL, 1923-

SECRETARIES.

C. HART MERRIAM, 1883--1889. *JOHN tI. SAGE, 1889--1917. T. S. PALMER, 1917--

TREASURERS.

C. HART MERRIAM, 1883--1885. *WILLIAM DUTCHER, 1887--1903. *CHAs. B. CORY, 1885-1887. JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1903-1920.

W. L. McATEE, 1920-

* Deceased.

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

*J. A. ALLEN, 1883-1921 CHAS. F. BATCHELDER, 1891- *S. F. BAIRD, 1883-1887. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 1894-- *WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1883-1919. *CHARLES E. BENDIaE, 1895--1897 *Mo•rAGVE CHAMBERLAIN, 1883--1888. A. K. FISHER, 1895- *ELLIOTT COUES, 1883-1899.

1883-1894; H. W. HENSHAW, [1911--1918.

*GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, 1883--1890. C. HART MERRIAM, 1883- ROBERT RIDGWAY, 1883--

1885--1895; *CHAs. B. CORY, [1896-1921 *WILLIAM DUTCHER, 1887--192Q. *D. G. ELLXOT, 1887--1915.

1887--1895; LEOXaARD STEJNEGER, [1896--1899. *THOMAS MCILWRAITH, 1888-1889. *JOHN H. SAGE, 1889-1925 *N. S. Goss, 1890-1891.

JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1896- RUTHVEN DEANE, 1897-- WITMER STONE, 1898- THOMAS S. ROBERTS, 1899-- ]•. W. NELSON, 1900- C. W. RICHMOND, 1903- F. A. LUCAS, 1905-1921 W. H. OSGOOD, 1911-1918, 1920- JOSEPH GRINNELL, 1914-- T. S. PALMER, 1917-- I-IARR¾ C. 0BERHOLSER, 1918- GEO. BIRD GRINWELL, 1918--1923 AR?H•ZR C. BEN?, 1921- ALEXANDER WE?MORE, 1923- JAMES H. FLEMING, 1923--

Officers are ex-officio members of the Council during their terms of office and ex-presidents are members for life. Ex-officio members are included in the above.

* Deceased.

Elections have been in November except in 1883 and 1884 (September) 1887, 1922 and 1923 (October), 1907 and 1909 (December), 1914 (April) and 1915 (May).

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLII.

NUMBER 1.

PAGE

WALTER BRADFORD BARROWS. By A. K. Fisher. (Plate I.) 1 GROWTH DEVELOPMENT AND REACTIONS OF YOUNG GREAT HORNED

OWLS. By Bessie P. Reed. (Plates II-IV.) ....... 14 NOTES ON Two GROUND-NESTING BIRDS OF PREY. By Chas. A.

Urner. (Plates V-VI.) .............. 31 THE SECONDARY REMIGES AND COVERTS IN THE MANDARIN AND

WOOD DucKs. By W. De W. Miller .......... 41 NOTES ON THE BIRD LIFE OF NORTH DAKOTA WITH PARTICULAR

REFERENCE TO THE SUMMER WATERFOWL. By Frederick C. I•ncoln .................... 50

SOME SUMMER BIRDS OF LAKE OWEN, BAYFIELD COUNTY, W. ISCONSIN. By A. W. Schorger ................ 64

NOTES ON BIRDS OF THE LABRADOR PENINSULA IN 1923. By Harrison F. Lewis. (Plate VII.) .............. 74

OBSERVATIONS AND BANDING NOTES ON THE BANK SWALLOW. By Dayton Stoner. (Plate VIII.) ............ 86

SUCGESTED ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK FOR BIRD BINDERS. By Alfred O. Gross ................... 95

THE FORTY-SECOND STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNI-

THOLOGISTS' Ulx.•ION. By T. S. Palmer ......... 105 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. By T. S. Palmer ........ 116 NOTES ON THE TAXONOMY OF ARDEA CANADENSIS LINNE. By James

L. Peters ................... 120

GENERAL NOTES.

Sea-birds at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, 123• The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occ•dentalis) in Ontario, 124; Abundance of the Laughing Gull (Lar•s atricilla) about New York, 125; Black Skimmer (Rynchops nigra) at Long Island, 125; The Black Skimmer (Rynchops nigra) at Ipswich, Massachusetts, 125; Black Skimmer and Golden Plover in Bronx County, 125; Wilson's Phalarope (Steganopus tricolor) in Bronx County, 126; A Remarkable Flight of Sanderlings, 126; King Rail Nesting on Long Island, N.Y., 127; Nesting of Great Blue Heron in Boothbay, Maine, 128; Little Blue Heron in Massachusetts, 128; American Egret (Casmerodius egretta) and Little Blue Heron (Florida caerulea) in Brooke Co., W. Va., 129; Correction, 129; Late Nesting of the Scaled Quail (Callipepla squamata squamata), 129; Another Record of the Ruddy Quail-Dove at Key West, 130; Black Vulture at Grand Manan, New Brunswick, and Ipswich, Mass., 130; Swallow-tailed Kite in Southern Michigan, 130; Goshawks in North-

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ern New Jersey, 131; The Barn Owl (Tyro pratincola) in Schenectady County, N.Y., 131; Barn Owl Breeding at Madison, Wis., 131; Richardson's Owl at Grand Manan, New Brunswick, 131; An Or- nithological Enigma, 132; Notes on the Nesting Habits of the Northern Pileated Woodpecker, 132; Habits of the Flicker, 134; Will the Starling Learn to Migrate in this Country? 134; Bobolink in Colorado, 135; Domestic Affairs of Spizella p. passerina, 136; Violet-green Swallow in Illinois, 137; Prothonotary Warbler in Erie Co., N.Y., 138; Nesting of the Prothonotary Warbler in Northern New Jersey, 138; Prothonotary Warbler in So. New Jersey in Summer, 139; Pro- thonotary Warbler Feeding Young of Another Species, 140; Con- necticut Warbler in Spring Migration in Central New York, 140; Mockingbird in Central New York, 140; Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos polyglottos) Nesting in Cohasset, Mass., 141; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Carolina Wren in Minneapolis, 142; Notes on the Water Ouzel (Cinclus mexicanus) in the Mountains of Colorado, 142; Ruby-crowned Kinglet in Summer in the Adirondack Mts., 144; Robin Feeds Young House Finch, 144; Michigan Notes, 144; Notes from Luce County, Mich., 145; Further Notes on North Dakota Birds, 145; Notes from Manitoba, 146; Early Shooting and Some Late Breeding Records for Alabama, 147.

RECENT LITERATURE.

Cory's 'Birds of the Americas,' 148; Kirke Swann's 'Monograph of the Birds of Prey,' 149; Abel Chapman's 'The Borders and Beyond,' 151; Heim'oths' 'Birds of Middle Europe,' 152; Recent Publications of the U.S. Biological Survey, 153; Chapin on the Weaver-Finches of the Genus Pyrenestes, 154; Riley on Celebes Birds, 154; Chapman on New Neotropical Birds, 155; Hellmayr on the Birds of 'Silla de Caracas,' 156; Recent Papers by Griscom and Dwight, 156; Pearson's 'Herons of the United States,' 157; Grinnell's 'Bibliography of Cali- fornia Ornithology,' 157; Mathews' 'The Birds oœ Australia,' 158; Life a•d Bibliography of Salvadori, 158; Murphy ox• the Cormorants of Peru, 158; The Nuttall Club's Anniversary Publication, 159; Note on the Crested Mynah, 159; Introduction upon Introduction, 160; The Ornithological Journals, 161; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 168.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Bird Banding Traps, 171; The Bean Goose in North America, 173.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Obituary: Adolph Herluf Winge, 174; William Daly Hobson, 175; Personal Mention: J.P. Chapin and H. Lang, 175; Dawson's 'Birds of the World,' 175; Arnold's 'British Waders,' 175; International Congress on Bird Protection, 175; Meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Club, 175; Meeting of the R. A. O. U., 175; Perso:aal Mention: R. C. Murphy, 176; Bird Refuge and Public Shooting Ground Bill, 176.

Contents of Vol•me XLII.

NUMBER II.

PAGE

OBSERVATIONS ON THE DOMESTIC BEHAVIOUR OF THE BARN OWL (Tyro pratincola). By Julian K. Potter and John A. Gillespie. (Plates IX-X) .................... 177

THE RELATIONSHIPS AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE WARBLERS OF THE GENUS COMPSOTHIJYPIS: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE

ORIGIN OF ANDEAN BIRD LIFE. By Frank M. Chapman . . 193 A GRArHIC METHOD or RECORDING FLIGHT. By Earl L. Poole . . 209 BIRDS' NESTS AT HOME. By E. A. Andrews ......... 217 OBSERVATIONS ON THE SrOTTED SANDrIrER. By A. J. Van Rossem.. 230 AN OUTLINE or THE PRINCIrLES or THE NATUraL SELECTIVE ABSORr-

TION or RADIANT ENERGY. By B. W. Cartwright and C. G. Hartold ..................... 233

THE ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE BERLIN MUSEUM. By T. G. Ahrens .................. 241

BIRD NETTING AS A METHOD IN ORNITHOLOGY. By Joseph Grinnell. 245 THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERS OF VERMIVORA CRISSALIS (SALvIBI

AND GODMaN). By Out ramBangs ............ 251 A NEW RACE or SICALIS rLAVEOLA fROM SOUTHEASTERN BraZIL.

By W. DeW. Miller ................. 253 THE EVENING GROSBEAK (HESPERIPHONA), THE ONLY AMERICAN

GENUS Or A PALAEARCTIC GROUt. By Prof. Peter P. Bushkin. . 256

GENERAL NOTES.

Notes on the Black Skimmer in Maine, 261; Wilson's Petrel in Maryland, 262; White Pelican at Lawrenceville, Ill., 263; Notes on Texas Ducks, 263; European Widgeon (Mareca penelope) at Niagara Falls, N.Y., 263; King Eider in North Carolina, 264; Blue Goose (Chen caerulescens) at Sea-breeze, Fla., 264; Blue Goose (Chen caerulescens), in Maine, 265; A Pink-looted Goose taken in Massachusetts, 265; The Brant (Branta bernicla glaucogastra) at Charleston, S.C., 265; King Rail Wintering on Long Island, 266; Type Locality of Ardea herodias wardi Ridgway: A Correction, 266; Purple Sandpiper at Cape May, N.J., 267; Wfison's Phalarope in Bronx Park, New York, 267; Notes on the Mating Habits of the Sparrow Hawk, 268; Habits of the Marsh Hawk, 269; Tyto pratincola in Northeastern Illinois, 269; Northern Pileated Woodpecker in Clayton Co., Iowa, 269; The Nighthawk in Alaska, 270; Another South Carolina Winter Record for the Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus), 271; Tyrannus verticalis in eastern Oklahoma, 271; Northern Raven in Tioga Co.• N.Y., 271; The Star- ling (Sturnus vulgaris) on the Coast of South Carolina, 271; The first Labrador Record of the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), 272; Further Notes on the Breeding of the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) at Hatley, Quebec, 1924, 273; Harris's Sparrow in Southwestern Ohio, 275; White-crowned Sparrows in Montgomery Co., Virginia, in January, 275; Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon lun•frons) again Nesting in Balti- more Cc}unty, Maryland, 275; Progne elegans us. Progne furcata, 276; The Great Northern Shrike and its Song, 277; Bell's Vireo in Michigan, 277; Macgillivray's Warbler in Indiana, 277; Winter Wren

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in Michigan• 278; A Double-yoked Robin's Egg, 278; Unusual Nest- ing of a Robin, 278; Notes on Birds of the Labrador Peninsula in 1924, 278; Further Notes on the Birds of Hatley, Quebec, 1924, 281; Two New Birds for Porto Rico, 282; One additional Copperplate of the Folio Edition of Audubon's 'Birds of America,' 282; Dates of Publication of Mikan's 'Flora and Fauna of Brazil,' 283; Birds Caught by Burdochs, 284.

RECENT LITERATURE.

Murphy's 'Bird Islands of Peru,' 284; Wheeler's 'Birds of Arkansas,' 285; Sumner on the Stability of Subspecific Characters, 286; Allen's 'Birds and Bird Lore,' 287; Kirke Swann's ' A Monograph of the Birds of Prey.' 288; White's 'Birds of Concord, New Hampshire,' 288; Arnoldis 'British Waders,' 289; Califf's 'Permanent Bird Homes,' 290; Recent Papers by Kuroda, 291; Bannerman on Tricholaema hirsutum, 291; Riley on New Birds from West China, 291; Oberholser on East Indian Birds, 291; Grinnell on Wild Animal Life and Natural Forests, 291; Murphy's Reports on the Whitney South Sea Expedition, 292; Crosby on Bird Banding, 292; The Illinois Audubon Bulletin, 292; Quail In- vestigation in 1924, 293; Report of the Chief of the Biological Survey, 293; Recent Papers by LSnnberg, 294; Report on the Fiji-New Zealand Expedition of the University of Iowa, 294; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 295; Fleming on a New Gull, 295; Miller and Griscom, on New Nicaraguan Birds, 295; Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York, 295; Recent Papers by Peters, 296; Grote on Birds of the Grasslands of New Cameroon, 296; The Ornithological Journals, 297; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 303.

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Danger in Bird Traps," 304.

NOTES AND NEWS.

The list of Deceased Members, 307; Obituary: Dr. Charles B. Penrose, 307; Dr. Charles E. Dionne, 308; Brewster Fund of the Boston Society of Natural History, 309; The Forty-third Stated Meeting of the A. O. U., 310.

NUMBER III. PAG•

AN AvI• CITY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST. By Alexander Sprunt, Jr. (Plates XII-XV) ............ 311

ON THE UTTERANC]•S OF THE KINGBIRD TYRANNUS TYRANNUS LINN., WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO A RECENTLY P•ECORDED SONG.

By Leon Augustus Hausman ............. 320 SOME NESTING HABITS OF THE BELTED PIPING PLOVER. By Gayle

Pickwell. (Plate XVI) ............... 326 LEONARD BALDNER, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SPORTSMAN AND NATUR-

ALIST. By John C. Phillips. (Plate XVII) ........ 332 A FEW REMARKS ABOUT CYCLARHIS GUJANENSIS CEARENSIS. By Elsie

M. B. Naumburg ................. 341

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PAGE THE BREEDING AND WINTERING OF THE PALLID HORNED LARK IN

WASHINGTON STATE. By Walter P. Taylor ........ 349 THE OUTER PRIMARY IN RELATION TO MIGRATION IN THE TEN-

PRIMARIED OSCINES. By Charles K. Averill ......... 353 SOME RESULTS OF BIRD BANDING IN EUROPE. By Frederick C.

L/ncoln. (Plate XVIII) .............. 358 THE GRAY-HOODED (•UAIL DOVE (GALLICOLUMBA RUBESCENS) OF THE

MARQUESAS ISLANDS XN CAPTIVITY. By E. W. Gifford. Plate XIX) ..................... 388

NoTEs oN THE BreEDING HABITS OF SOME GEORGIA BIRDS. By Thos. D. Burleigh ................. 396

A FOSSIL BIRD'S EGG FROM T•E POST-TERTIARY MUD-ROCKS OF FIJI.

By Casey A. Wood. (Plate XX) ............ 401 Birds OF BAr•)S•OWN, NELSON CO., KEntUCKY. By Benedict g.

Blineoe ..................... 404

A NEw LEPIDOCOLAPTES. By Elsie M. B. Naumburg ...... 421 A NEW HAZEL GROUSE FROM THE PROVINCE OF SZECHWAN, CHINA.

By J. H. Riley .................. 422 DISEASES OF THE RUFFED GROUSE. By Alfred O. Gross ...... 423 BIRDS OF THE BROWNSVILLE REGION, SOUTHERN TEXAS. By Ludlow

Gr/scom and Maunsell S. Crosby ............ 432

GENERAL NOTES.

Black Tern at Brooklyn, N.Y. in Spring, 441; Black Skimmer on Lake Ontario, 441; Cinnamon Teal and Black Brant in Oklahoma, 441; Mallard Duck Nesting in a Tree, 441; The White-winged Scoter in Louisiana, 442; Glossy Ibis in Colorado, 442; Black Vulture (Coragyps urubu) in Michigan, 442; Golden Eagle near Pensacola, Florida, 443; Osprey at Guelph, Ontario, 443; Behavior of the Barred Owl, 443; Barn Owls at Chicago, 444; Unusual Nesting Site of Great Horned Owl, 444; Strange Behavior of Great Horned 0wl in Behalf of Young, 445; Protective Coloration of Horned Larks, 446; Another Record for the Genus Corvus in St. Croix, 446; The Starling at Guelph, Ontario, 446; The Starling (Sturnus vulgarus) at Leetouia, Ohio, 447; Mountain Song Sparrow in Oklahoma, 447; Winter Habits of the White-throated Sparrow at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 447; Vireo bellii bellii at Detroit, Michigan, 449; The Status of Amoromyza Richmond, 450; The Cape May Warbler at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 450; Some Notes on the Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis) from Luce County Michigan, 450; A Retrograde Movement in the Connecticut Valley, 451; New and Rare Birds in North Dakota, 452; One Additional Copper-plate of the Folio Edition of Audubon's 'Birds of America,' 452.

RECENT LITERATURE.

Brewster s Birds of the Lake Umbagog Region of Maine, 453; Jack Miner and the Birds, 454; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 454; Balsac on the Ornithology of the Northern Sahara, 455; Townsend's 'Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes, 455; Skinner's 'Birds of the Yellowstone

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National Park,' 455; Aves in the Zoological Records, 456; Stoner's Sketch of the Life of Audubon, 457; Kirke Swann on the Birds of Prey, 457; Delacour and Jabouille on the Birds of Central Annam, 458; Chapman on New South American Birds, 458; Miller on Ptilosls, 459; Van Tyne on the Birds of Charlevoix Co., Mich., 460; Tugarinow and Buturlin on the Ornithology of the Yenisee Government, 460; Miss Sherman on the House Wren Problem, 460; Clark on Animal Coloration and Flight, 462; Recent Papers by Stresemann, 462; Papers on Neotropical Birds by Zimmer, 463; Papers on Bird Pro- tection, 463; Economic Ornithology, 464; The Ornithological Journals, 465; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 473.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Obituaries: Eugene Pintard Bicknell, 475; Tadeusz Chrostowski, 476; Eugene Louis Simon, 478; Ned Hollister, 478; Robert Oliver Morris, 480; Ernest Harold Baynes, 480; Mrs. Martha Evans Martin, 481; Meeting of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, 482; British Ornithologists' Union, 482; Baird Ornithological Club, 482; Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 482; Heath Hen Problem, 482; The Zoological Record, 483; Birds of Denmark, 483; International Ornithological Congress, 483; Personal Mention: S. P. Baldwin and T. W. Weisman, 483; H. L. Stoddard, 484; International Committee for the Protection of Birds, 484; Brewster Medal, 484; Papers at the next A. O. U. Meetings, 484.

NUMBER IV.

THE NES?INO OF THE KILLDEER. By Gayle Pickwell. (Plates XXI- XXIII) .................... 485

T•H BLACK SWIFT AND I?S HABI?S. By Samuel F. Rathbun. (Plate XXlV) ................. 497

BREEDING OF THE HERRING GULL (Larus argentatus) IN MASSA- CnUSH??S. By George H. Mackay ............ 517

BIRDS OF ?nE BROWNSWLLE REOION, SOU?nERN TEXAS. By Ludlow Griscom and Maunsell S. Crosby. (Continued) ....... 519

I•0TES ON T•E BIRDS OBSERVED IN T•E LOWER Ri0 GRANDE VALLEY

OF TEXAS DURr•G MAY, 1924. By Herbert Friedmann. (Plates XXV-XXlX) ................. 537

So•H NO?ES o• ?nE BIRDS OF ?UE BRANCUrORT, N.Y. REOION, 1923. By Verdi Burtch. (Plate XXX) ............ 554

NEW BIRDS fOR PORTO RICO. By Stuart T. Danforth ...... 558 TnH B•RDs or TnE DES MOINES RAtres. By W. E. Praeger .. . 563

GENERAL NOTES.

Double-crested Cormorant in the Connecticut Valley, 578; The Man-o'- war-bird in South Carolina, 578; The American Scorer in Florida, 579; Hudsonian Curlew near Youngstown, Ohio, 580; Avocet at Wallop's Island, Va., 580; Swimming and Diving Activity of the Spotted Sand- piper (Actiris macularia), 580; Diving of the Spotted Sandpiper, 581;

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Boreal Limicolae Summering in Florida, 581; The American Egret (Casmerodius egretta) in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, 583; The Egret in Connecticut, 584; An Egret and a Little Blue Heron in Rensselaer County, N.Y., 584; Diagnosis of a new Genus of Buteonine Hawks (Coryornis), 585; Kingfisher and Cooper's Hawk, 585; North- ern Pileareal Woodpecker at Cummington, Mass., 586; Strange Nest- ing Site of the Chimney Swift, 586; Unusual Occurrence of the Chim- ney Swift, 587; Broad-tailed Hummingbird Bathing in a Swift Flowing Mountain Stream, 588: The Dance of the Tangar•., 588; White- crowned Sparrow at C,fharleston, S.C., 590; Henslow's Sparrow in Helderbergs, N.Y., 590; English Sparrows and Robins, 591; Yellow- throated Warbler on Quaker Ridge, Mamaroneck, N.Y., 591; The Tennessee Warbler at a low Altitude in Vermont, 592; The Short- billed Marsh Wren Breeding in Westchester County, N.Y., 593; Mountain Chickadee with an Adopted Family, 593; Ruby-crowned Kinglet Nesting in Michigan, 593; Changes in Bird Life in Amherst, Massachusetts in Twenty Years, 594.

RECENT LITERATURE.

BenUs 'LifeHistoriesof the North American Water Fowl,' 595; La Touchse' 'Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China,' 595; Kuroda's 'Avifauna of the Riu Kin Islands,' 597; Hachisuka's 'Comparative List of the Birds of Japan and the British Isles,' 598; Canon Raven's 'In Praise of Birds,' 599; Miller and Griscom on New Central American Birds, 600; Todd on New Birds from Brazil and Guiana, 600; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 600; Recent Publications by Beebe, 600; Grinnell on Introducing Alien Game Birds, 601; Esten on Nest Studies, 602; Kalmbach and McAtee's 'Homes for Birds,' 602; Sun Brothers, 602; The Buff-backed Egret in Egyptian Agriculture, 603; The Ornithological Journals, 604.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Plea for the Evidence, 612; Out of Print, 612.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Obituaries: John H. Sage, 613; Dr. Arthur Gatdiner Butler, 615; Henry Worthington Olds, 616; Richard Hunt, 617; Mrs. Sara Anderson Hubbard, 618; Col. Harry Copeland Benson• 619; James Britton Purdy, 620; 75th Anniversary of German Ornithological Society, 621; Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 621; N.Y. Meeting of A. O. U., 621.

INDEX .................... Page 623 ERRATA .................... " 650 DATES OF ISSUE ................ " 650 OFFICERS OF THE A. O. U. PAsr AND ih•r•ssN'r ....... " i COUNCIL OF THE A. O. V. PAsr ANO P•SEN'r ....... " ii CONTEN?S .................. " iii OFFICERS AND MEMBERS .............. • X•

Contents of Volume XLII.

Vo VI.

VII. VIII.

IX. X.

[xI. XII.

XIII. XIV-XV.

XVI. XVII.

XVIII. XIX.

XX. XXI.

XXII. XXIII. XXIV.

XXV. XXVI.

XXVII. XXYIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATES.

Walter B. Barrows. Young Great Horned Owls (four, three and four views re-

spectively). Short-earedOwls (two views). Marsh Hawks, Eggs and Young (two views). Ring-billed Gulls, Adults and Young (two views). Nests of the Bank Swallow (three views). Barn Owls Nest Site and Young (two views). Barn Owls (four views). Owing to an error in numbering there is no Plate XI.] Brown Pelican and Nest (two views). Brown Pelican Colony (three views). Royal Tern Colony (two views each). Belted Piping Plover and Nest (two views). Leonard Baldner. Rossitten Observatory and Bird Trap. Gray-hooded Quail Dove (two views). Fossil Egg from the Fiji Mudstones (two views). Killdeer at nest (two views). Killdeer Nest Site on Roof (two views). Killdeer Nests and Eggs (two views). Skins of the Black Swift. Nests of the Sennett's Thrasher and Lornira Wren (two views). Nests of the Vera Cruz Redwing and Gray-tailed Cardinal

(two views). Nests of the Texas Wren and Merrill's Parauque (two views). Nests of the Mexican Crested Flycatcher and Ward's Heron

(two views). Nests of Sennett's White-tailed Hawk and Mexican Ground

Dove (two views). Golden Plover and Canvasback Ducks (three views).

T•xT CuTs.

Map showing Distribution of Compsothlypis in North and Central America ........ .... • .... . . . P,a, ge 197

Map showing Distribution of Compsothlypts m South America . ' 202 Diagrams of Bird Flight ........ Pages 210, 212, 214, 215 Diagram of Nest Sites in Successive Years ..... Pages 218, 219 Diagram of Variation in Spectral Character of Sun-light . . Page 237 Feathers Showing Abrasion ............. " 238 Bills of Coccothraustes and Hesperiphona ......... " 257 Bills of Hesperiphona, Coccothraustes, Chrysomitris and Rich-

mondena .................. " 258 Heads of Falcunculus and Cyclarhis .......... " 342 Map showing Distribution of Cyclarhis gujanensis cearensis . . " 345 Maps showing Migration Routes of Various European Birds

Pages 362, 366, 368, 371, 372, 378, 381

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Secretary: T. S. PALMER, 1939 Biltmore St., Washington, D.C. Treasurer: W. L. McATEE, 200 Cedar St., Maywood, via Cherry-

dale, Va.

SEPARATES FOR SALE In order to meet a general demand for separates of the leading

articles published in 'The Auk' arrangements have been made to furnish copies of any leading article beginning with the April 1920 issue at 25 cents each, post paid.

Orders for these separates should be addressed to the editor.

DR. WITMER STONE, ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN CIRCLE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

MEETINGS OF THE A. O. U.

Since its organization in 1883 the American Ornithologists' Union has held one special and 42 annual meetings.

Total Meeting Date Place Fellows Mere-

Present bershiF

I 1883, Sept. 26-28 1st New York 21 23 2 1884, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 2d New York 16 143 3 1885, Nov. 17-18 3d New York 16 201 4 1886, Nov. 16-18 1st Washington 20 251 5 1887, Oct. 11-13 1st Boston 17 284 6 1888, Nov. 13-15 2d Washington 20 298 7 1889, Nov. 12-15 4th New York 20 400 8 1890, Nov. 18-20 3d Washington 20 465 9 1891, Nov. 17-19 5th New York 14 493

10 1892, Nov. 15-17 4th Washington 20 557 11 1893, Nov. 20-23 2d Cambridge 17 582 12 1894, Nov. 12-15 6th New York 15 616 13 1895, Nov. 11-14 5th Washington 19 667 14 1896, Nov. 9-12 3d Cambridge 14 673 15 1897, Nov. 8-11 7th New York 18 679 16 1898, Nov. 14-17 6th Washington 21 695 17 1899, Nov. 13-16 1st Philadelphia 16 744 18 1900, Nov. 12-15 4th Cambridge 19 748 19 1901, Nov. 11-14 8th New York 18 738 20 1902, Nov. 17-20 7th Washington 25 753 20a 1903, May 15-16 1st San Francisco 7 21 1903, Nov. 16-19 2d Philadelphia 19 775 22 1904, Nov. 28-Dec. 1 5th Cambridge 17 808 23 1905, Nov. 13-16 9th New York 17 860 24 1906, Nov. 12-15 8th Washington 24 750 25 1907, Dec. 9-12 3d Philadelphia 20 850 26 1908, Nov. 16-19 6th Cambridge 17 888 27 1909, Dec. 6-9 loth New York 19 866 28 1910, Nov. 14-17 9th Washingtov• '• 23 897 29 1911, Nov. 13-16 4th Philadelphia 18 887 30 1912, Nov. 11-14 7th Cambridge 18 929 31 1913, Nov. 10-13 .11th New York 28 992 32 1914, Apr. 6-9 : 10th Washington 27 1101 83 1915, May 17-20 2d San Francisco 11 1156 34 1916, Nov. 13-16 5th Philadelphia 26 830 35 1917, Nov. 12-15 8th Cambridge 21 891 36 1918, Nov. 11 12th New York 14 953 37 1919, Nov. 10-13 13th New York 28 1024 38 1920, Nov. 8-11 11th Washington 25 1142 39 1921, Nov. 7-10 6th Philadelphia 25 1351 40 1922, Oct. 23-27 1st Chicago 24 1457 41 1923, Oct. 8-12 9th Cambridge 25 1652 •, 1 .•24_ Nnv_ 10-l.• 1.•t Plt•hnr•h 26 1637

The next regular meeting--the 43d Stated--will be held at New York City, November 9-12, 1925.